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The New Zealand Court of Appeal in a bare majority in Hosking v Runting accepted that there was a tort of privacy in New Zealand. The tort was affirmed as protection in this area was needed and the breach of confidence tort was not suitable to cover situations involving privacy. [ 22 ]
Writing for the Auckland Law School, Nikki Chamberlain and Stephen Penk say that the Act is outdated, saying that "our new Act does not adequately address the risks of the 21st century" and "there is a real need to develop the law around misappropriation of personality to protect an individual's right to identity privacy", and that the Act does ...
The Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) is an act of the New Zealand Parliament which creates a public right to access information held by government bodies. It is New Zealand's primary freedom of information law and has become an important part of New Zealand's constitutional framework.
Printable version ; In other projects ... from the New Zealand Law Commission's 2011 review of New Zealand's privacy laws. ... privacy obligations under the Universal ...
The Code regulates into law matters related to credit reporting. The Code is however only limited to credit reporters that actually sell credit information, so at current the Code only applies to 3 credit reporting firms, Veda Limited, Dun & Bradstreet Limited, and recent newcomer Centrix Group Limited.
The Laws of New Zealand is an encyclopedia that is intended to provide a reliable statement of the whole law of New Zealand – statutory, regulatory, and judicial. Publication commenced in 1992. It is published by LexisNexis and is the only current encyclopaedia of New Zealand law. It is the New Zealand equivalent of Halsbury's Laws of England.
The tribunal is established under the New Zealand Human Rights Act 1993. [1] The Human Rights Review Tribunal is one of two key human rights bodies in New Zealand and provides the mechanism for adjudication and resolution of human rights issues. The jurisdiction of the tribunal extends to cover matters from domestic human rights law, principles ...
Different criteria apply to TV/radio programmes, a newspaper article, privacy issues, an advertisement in any media, and any human rights issue, including discrimination and bias. The Broadcasting Standards Authority handles complaints from members of the public about TV and radio programmes, and also breaches of privacy by a broadcast or ...